"The entire ant nest has about a dozen floors, and we are at the lowest part. But there is actually another layer below us, which should be a ventilation channel for the ants. In order to ensure the air flow in the underground ant country, the ventilation channel should be drilled directly from the ground to the end. Ministry."
Adrian went out for a whole day and collected a lot of information. He drew a simple diagram on the ground to indicate the current location of Zhou Qingfeng and others.
"This is our prison, this is the ventilation channel. Just make a hole from the prison. I also found a few other prisons. Some of the prisons are quite terrible, there are no living people, only the gnawed remains.
I think whether or not the curse of acidophilic ants is finally lifted, these half demons will not let us go. Instead of staying here and wasting time, it is better to hurry up and find an escape along the ventilation channel. "
Adrian used simple lines and squares to indicate passages and spaces, and described the situation at the bottom of the ant nest very clearly. Zhou Qingfeng asked: "Are you sure about the location of these channels?"
Adrian laughed, "Sometimes I sneak into a knight manor or excavate the secret room of a noble castle, and take away some valuables without notifying the original owner. It's easy to get caught if I am not sure where I am."
The clown laughed awkwardly, knowing that this guy must want to come and steal Harmony Village. Zhou Qingfeng only pays attention to the location of the passage leading to the lower level. This may be the route to escape. "The passage you mentioned is below the position of our prison?"
"It should be dug down in the house of Mondino," Adrian said. "You can dig through a layer of soil about three feet thick."
The heads of several people came together and looked at each other. Mondino said in a low voice, "I have a scroll of'fossil to mud' that can directly penetrate three feet of soil. But there is only one. If the positioning is not accurate, it will be wasted."
Three feet thick? According to Phelan's weights and measures, it is less than one meter. In order not to waste the scroll, Zhou Qingfeng opened the door of time and space and brought an auger rod similar to a Luoyang shovel from reality. Several people worked together to make a hole in the floor of Mondino's bedroom.
The ant country built by acidophilic ants is basically a sandstone soil layer, and they use their own saliva and soil layer to mix to form a building material of triad soil properties. This kind of structure is light and strong, but it can't hold it in the face of steel drill pipe.
Without Zhou Qingfeng doing anything about his work, Todd held the drill pipe, turned the crank, and quickly pierced a hole in the ground. The drill pipe was one meter and five meters away, and it didn't penetrate the soil layer to the end-Adrian was pale.
But everyone was not discouraged and drilled more than a dozen holes in a row. It was finally determined that the channel on the next floor deviated from Adrian's estimate by two meters, and there was indeed another space under the prison.
The'fossil mud' scroll was used to open the barrier, and the floor constructed by acidophilic ants fell softly. A big hole appeared, and the cold light of glowing moss was still seen underneath the hole.
Zhou Qingfeng went down first, followed by Adrian, Mondino, Old Borg, and Xili. In the end, Jiying digs through the hole and squeezes it abruptly.
The necromancer summoned a few ghosts and looked around along the passage. You have poor knowledge and low wisdom, and barely confirm that there are not too many acidophilic ants in the lower level of the prison, and it is empty everywhere.
"Come with me, walk some distance down this passage, and there is a vertical ventilation pipe in front." Adrian waved his hand and led the way. Fortunately, everyone in the team has dark vision, and they can move without hindrance.
The nests of acidophilic ants are built in the same way, and the rough passage environment is completely the same. To show the way, Adrian used glowing moss to mark the ground so as not to get lost. Walking silently for a hundred meters, Zhou Qingfeng saw several holes in the side wall of the passage.
"This is also a prison, there are only remains, no living people." Adrian said.
Zhou Qingfeng looked at each prison curiously, and the caves and remains were nothing unusual. But there are some patterns and patterns on the wall of the prison. "What do these things mean?"
The pattern in the abandoned prison was strange, and several people leaned forward to try to decipher the meaning. Only Todd was holding an axe, standing in front of a bone and sighing in a low voice, "It is an orc warrior who died here."
Judging from the appearance of the skull, it was indeed an orc who was imprisoned to death. Todd looked at the cave wall again, and whispered: "This is the whisper of the orcs, and it's not a secret language. The orcs who died here warned the later comrades not to believe in any promises made by acidophilic ants."
Hearing that Todd could understand the pattern on the cave wall, everyone else stepped aside. Todd's fingers traversed lines of secret words composed of strange patterns, and continued to interpret: "The ants shed the blood of despicable devil, cunning and not keeping promises.
The ant nest is too complicated, and the ventilation pipe has traps and guards. If you want to escape, you have to find another way. There is also..., here is a picture showing the structure of the ant nest. "
There is indeed an ant nest structure drawing on the wall of the cave. Although the drawing is rough, it is more detailed than what Adrian spent a day exploring. Mondino deliberately released the lighting technique, so that everyone can see more clearly.
Todd continued: "We are indeed at the bottom level. Not far away is the corpse pit of the ant nest. There are several roads here, and you can't go up, and you will be found by acidophilic ants. Down... .. . "
Everyone else was listening, but there was no further comment. 'Ji Ying' couldn't wait, and asked, "What's down?"
"Downward is the warehouse." Todd seemed a little confused. "The orc's secret language is very simple, not as accurate as the lingua franca. I think the meaning above seems to say that latecomers should go to the warehouse, and then fight the acidophilic ants."
"Warehouse? What's in the warehouse?" Zhou Qingfeng asked.
"It's not written on it." Todd looked at the remains lying in the abandoned prison. "It is estimated that he will be dead by the time he writes."
Zhou Qingfeng looked at Mondino again. The necromancer shook his head, "The soul of the remains has completely dissipated and can no longer communicate."
Everyone's interpretation of Todd's last paragraph is very inexplicable-if there is any property in the warehouse, it is enough to ask latecomers to take advantage of it. But the dead orc asked latecomers to go to the warehouse, and then desperately.
Where is this warehouse
Adrian and Todd studied and judged together for a long time, and finally confirmed that the ant nest warehouse pointed out on the wall of the abandoned prison was near them, but they had to turn around and return. Acidophilic ants intentionally closed the warehouse without a normal entrance.
"It's impossible for the orcs who died here to write meaningless words. I also believe that acidophilic ants may be guarded against the ventilation ducts. Let's go and see what's in this so-called warehouse."
Zhou Qingfeng made a decision, and everyone else agreed. So the group of people turned back in the ant nest passage of the black hole and headed in another direction. The wall that they finally found was closed, and there was no warehouse at all.
But Mondino, the necromancer, approached the wall, touched his dry bones lightly, and quacked and said, "I have a feeling that there is something I need behind this wall."